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Text Editor

                 We can create HTML documents using normal text editors like Notepad or Wordpad. The
                 user should have a proper knowledge of the HTML commands to develop a web page in Text

                 Editor.



                   Tags and Attributes


                 As we know, HTML is a markup language. It uses tags to markup the content of the web                       HTML—AN INTRODUCTION
                 pages. These tags also have attributes. Let us learn more about tags and attributes.



                   Tags


                 Tags are the basic building blocks of a web page. They tell the browser how the information
                 is to be displayed on the web page. Tags do not appear in the browser window but they                    79

                 affect the display of the text and non-text items within it. Each tag in HTML follows
                 specific rules and syntax. HTML tags are not case-sensitive.

                 In HTML document, a tag name begins with an opening angular bracket (<) and  ends with
                 closing angular bracket (>).

                 For example,

                                               <TagName> content </TagName>



                                                 Opening tag              Closing tag


                 Both the opening and closing tags are the same. The only difference is that the closing tag
                 contains a forward slash before the tag name. Most of the tags in HTML have opening and
                 closing tags. A combination of an opening tag, content, and closing tag is called an element.

                 The HTML tags can be categorised as:

                 •   Container Tags: The tags that have both opening and closing tags are called Container

                   Tags.

                   For example        <b> ...... </b>


                                            <head> ...... </head>
                 •   Empty  Tags: Empty tags contain only an opening tag. They do not have a closing tag.
                   These tags do not enclose any data.


                   For example        <br>, <hr>, etc.
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